From: Martin Althoff <martin.althoff@tiscali.co.uk>
To: "boyd, rounin" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re[2]: [9fans] Anyone awake?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:31:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47852750.20030727173144@tiscali.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006501c35445$56c91080$b9844051@insultant.net>
As posted earlier the hardware for parallel ports and serial ports is
rather different. While it might be possible to hide that under a
software layer might be doable, the elec-tricks might cause a problem
when directly connecting them.
Remembering PC (not mac) stone age times vaguely, there were serial
ports (cards) that had DB25 connectors. Did the Mac ever use those?
The difference to the parallel connector was in gender, though that
was sometimes confused.
A DIN8/DB25 adapter cable would make sense in that context as I
believe mac's used DIN8 connectors quite early. I once owned a nifty
connector cable that came with an early version of PC Anywhere (or
something like that) which had each type of connector at either end to
connect 2 serial or (!) 2 parallel port.
From the memory chest....
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-27 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-27 8:37 northern snowfall
2003-07-27 9:48 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-28 4:16 ` ron minnich
2003-07-27 12:06 ` David Presotto
2003-07-27 13:34 ` John DeGood
2003-07-27 13:45 ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-27 16:31 ` Martin Althoff [this message]
2003-07-27 16:43 ` Re[2]: " jmk
2003-07-27 17:06 ` Jack Johnson
2003-07-27 19:00 ` northern snowfall
2003-07-27 18:10 ` Re[2]: " Martin Althoff
2003-07-27 19:22 ` northern snowfall
2003-07-27 18:30 ` Re[2]: " Martin Althoff
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